Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | 2021 asp 1 |
| Year | 2021 |
(1) Each local authority must ensure that, within its area, period products are obtainable free of charge (in accordance with arrangements established and maintained by the local authority) by all persons who need to use them.(2) The period products obtainable free of charge by a person under such arrangements (whether obtained under one or more than one local authority's arrangements) are to be sufficient products to meet the person's needs while in Scotland.must include provision under which period products are obtainable by another person on behalf of the person who needs to use them,may, where they include provision under which period products may be delivered to a person, require the person to pay costs associated with packing and delivery (except where the person could not reasonably obtain products in accordance with the arrangements in any other way) .(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) , the needs of a person who lives in Scotland are to be regarded as all arising while in Scotland.(1) Each education provider must ensure that period products are obtainable free of charge (in accordance with arrangements established and maintained by the education provider) by the persons mentioned in subsection (5) .(2) An education provider is to do so by providing period products, or securing their provision, in such locations within each institution in Scotland managed by the education provider as are specified in arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) .(3) The locations specified in the arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) for an institution must include at least one location in each building which is normally used by pupils or, as the case may be, students at the institution.(4) But where the education provider considers, having consulted under section 7, that a building of the type mentioned in subsection (3) is not a suitable place for the provision of period products, no location in the building need be specified in the arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) .need to use period products, andpupils at a school managed by the education provider, orstudents undertaking, in Scotland, a course (or part of a course) of education at a further education institution or higher education institution managed by the education provider.in the case of a school, the pupil's needs during the school's term times,in the case of a higher education institution or further education institution, the student's needs during the term times for the course of education that the student is undertaking.a school,a higher education institution,a further education institution.(8) The Period Products in Schools (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/183) are revoked.(1) Each public service body specified in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers (a “specified public service body”) must ensure that period products are obtainable free of charge (in accordance with arrangements established and maintained by the body) by persons in its premises who need to use them.(2) A specified public service body is to do so by providing period products, or securing their provision, in such locations within those premises as are specified in arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) .(3) Where a specified public service body operates over a number of sites in Scotland, the locations specified in the arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) must include locations in premises at each such site.(4) The period products obtainable free of charge by a person under the arrangements established and maintained under subsection (1) are to be sufficient products to meet the person's needs while the person is in the premises.must consult the body, andmay consult any other body or person they think appropriate.(6) Bodies may be specified for the purposes of this section by reference to a class that they are in.(7) Where they are proposed to be so specified, subsection (5) applies in relation to each of those bodies. (8) Regulations under this section may specify that different provisions of this Act are, in relation to a public service body specified in the regulations, to take effect on different days.make incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision,make different provision for different purposes.(10) Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative procedure.constituted by or under an enactment, andhaving functions that consist of or include providing public services or otherwise serving the public interest.reasonably easily, andin a way that respects the dignity of persons obtaining them,(b) a reasonable choice of different types of period products to be obtainable.section 1 or, as the case may be, 2, andsection 8,any specified public service bodies about the exercise of the functions conferred on them by sections 3 and 8.to local authorities and education providers under subsection (1) (a) is to be issued as soon as reasonably practicable after this section comes into force,to a particular specified public service body (or to a particular class of specified public service bodies) under subsection (1) (b) is to be issued as soon as reasonably practicable after the body (or class of bodies) is specified in regulations under section 3.must in particular include guidance about the matters in relation to which section 4 imposes requirements,may also include guidance about the exercise of the functions conferred on responsible bodies by sections 6 and 7.(4) Each responsible body to which guidance is issued under this section must have regard to the guidance as it relates to that body.to local authorities and education providers under subsection (1) (a) ,to a particular specified public service body (or a particular class of specified public service bodies) under subsection (1) (b) .
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